Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 80 tons of food parcels had been shipped to the U.S. from one of the world's hungriest countries, Greece. The parcels contained olive oil, salami, cheese, figs. At the very time the U.S. prepared to give Greece major economic help, the shipments had risen to a peak of 16,000 parcels a week...
...groups and twelve fighter groups. None of them are at V-J day efficiency. The commanders who could once send 820 B-29s rumbling over Japan on a single strike, last month were able to muster only 101 for a practice raid over Manhattan. From a V-J day peak of 85,000 planes, the Air Forces are now down to 9,000 first-line aircraft, and 2,000 to 3,000 of them will pass over to reserve status each year...
...still raining next morning when Capital's maintenance director, James Franklin, circled his light plane over a 1,689-ft. Blue Ridge peak in search of Flight 410, then more than twelve hours overdue in Washington. Through a break in the clouds, Franklin saw a dreadful scatter of wings and burned fuselage, near the top of the peak. It was a scene with which the U.S. had become terribly familiar in the last three weeks. Flight 410 had hit the peak head-on 150 feet below the summit. There were no survivors...
...Retailers, worried about possible price drops, were not buying as fast as they had been. As a result, the movement of goods from manufacturers slowed down. Another $450 million in goods piled up in manufacturers' inventories in April. This boosted them to $22 billion, almost twice the prewar peak...
Record High. Volume of consumer credit reached a new U.S. peak at the end of April, the Federal Reserve Board reported. April's increase of $207,000,000, due largely to heavier installment buying, brought the total to $10,256,000,000. That was $149,000,000 above the previous peak in 1941, more than double the wartime low of $4,835,000,000 in February...